关于贫困概念的演进与思考

贫困概念有两种理解：区域贫困与个体贫困,学术界常常把它们混为一谈,这在理论上是错误的,在政策上是误导的。通常所说的贫困应该指的就是个体意义上的贫困。贫困的内涵到目前为止可以概括为三种类型：收入贫困、能力贫困和权利贫困。贫困概念内涵的演进也带来了贫困度量方法的变化。贫困概念的认识的不断深化,是对贫困概念外延和内涵的扩展。这些贫困概念虽然内涵不断演变,但它们之间不是替代性的,而是相互补充的,相互作用的。

The Evolution and Reflections of Poverty Concept

The concept of poverty has two understandings: regional poverty and individual poverty. The academic circles often mix them with each other,which is wrong theorectically and misleading on policy. The generally mentioned poverty shall refer to individual poverty. So far the intention of poverty can be summarized into three types:income poverty, capability poverty and power poverty. The evolution of the intention has also brought about the change of measurement for poverty. With the deepening of recognition of poverty concept, the extention and intention of poverty concept has been broadened. Although the intentions of poverty concept are developing continously, they can be replaced by each other. Instead,they are mutually supplementary and function on each other.